The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-02-12
OVER The STATE.

General S. ID. Lee says every
creamery in this State is conduct
ed by former student of the A.
s. NJ. College. He also states that
the bulk of the graduates become
farmers and pursue on their own
accounts the practical lessons
taught them at the ColIege.-Oom.
mercial Herald.
Maj. NJ. S. Belknap, late Super.
intendent of the Vicksburg and
Meridian and Vlcksburg and
Shreveport railroads, has been
appointed General Superintend-
ent Of the Georgia Central at a
salary of $4,000 per annum. His
many friends in this city are re-
joiced to learn of his good fortune.
Evening Post.
| Col. Mayer on Thursday made a
sale of his Piedmont, Hall Landing
Warrenton and Sparta plantations,
to Richardson & May of New Or.
leans for $4,000 -A-sig sale.
Week before last, lightning
struck wagon loaded with hay
on Valewood plantation. There
were four mules to the wagon and
a driver who was riding one of the
mules. The four mules were in.
stantly killed, the wagon broke all
to pieces, and the hay set fire to
and burned. The most remarka-
BILE part of it is that the driver
who fell with the mule he was on
did not get hurt at all.-Mayers-
vile Spectator.
For the first time in the history
of the county, the Circuit Court
met without finding in the Jail OF
the county a prisoner awaiting
trial. For the first time since its
organization the business of the
term will be disposed Of in one
week. For the first time there is
not found on the juries a drunken
man. How to account for this
state of things is a conundrum
submitted to the Anti Prohibition.
| lists for solution. - Brookhaven
Leader.
On Sunday last, near Mound
Landing, at Capt. Hyner's levee
camp two men, one named King
Banks and the other Henry
Hodges, while engaged in a little
gaming got into quarrel and the
latter struck the former in the
head with q stick and he died in
! about twenty four hours. AS
soon as l had any notice of the
, affair issued warrants and placed
them In the hands of A. b. Single.
ton, Constable, and II. j. Steward
: Deputy Sheriff. After diligent
search the officers returned and
reported the murderer not found
| Cor. Rosodale Leader.
The business of the Natchez
j Compress aud Warehouse Co., in.
augurated this season, has been
most satisfactory, and even more
successful than Its projectors
thought 1t would be during its
first years operations. The erec.
tion of the press was not conceiv
ed until the close of the cotton
season Of 1885 'S6 and the press
was not ready for work until after
the crop of 1SS6,S7 began to be
marketed, but the energy and in
; domitable enterprise of the gen
tlemen connected with the com
press has already secured q great
deal of work for it, and its output
! will compare most favorably will
!, that of any other press erected in
: this section last year.-Natches
r Democrat.
! This country pauses to heal
from the old war horse, the Clar
ion, and the "oflicial journal O.
the State" on the Thomas pardon
7 question. Silence is golden, SO il
is said.-Meridian News.
The CLARION replies that the peo
pie have conferred upon Gov
Lowry the power to grant re
prleves and pardons, and 1t pre-
fers to believe that in exercising
= the power he acts conscientiously
1t has no reason to believe other
wise. If It be true, as has beer
!. stated, that Thomas is in such |
}. condition of bad health as placel
! him beyond hope of recovery ant
makes his death at an early day
certainfy-that has always beef
considered a good ground for par
don. The record of pardon in thi
and other States TEEN with in
. stances of pardon granted for n,
other RECOMMENDATION.
Mrs. Susan ID. Smedes and Mis-
Leila Dabney, daughters of th
late Col. Thomas s. Dabney, of thi
county, haye secured positions
the first named as principal an,